Short and Snappy No. 17
GPO, Melbourne
If you are wandering through the GPO mall, in Melbourne, and wonder where the beautiful chirping is coming from – look up! Cages have been suspended from the ceiling, complete with yellow canaries.
Breakfast cereal Weet–bix voted Australia’s favourite trademark.
The Brooklyn Museum ventures onto MySpace, one the world’s most visited websites. It seems they are popular too, with a whopping 5713 friends!
(Via Musematic)
Picture Australia is also popular, but on photo site Flickr. They’ve invited people to submit images of Australia’s People, Places and Events. So far, there are over 9000 photographs.
(Via Musematic)
The Powerhouse Museum, in Sydney has recently launched two new sites –
Design Hub (an e-zine on design) and Free Radicals (a blog on science and sustainability).
(Via Assembly, Fresh + New, Bila + Design)
More from the Powerhouse Museum who have placed an ad for an exhibition on the Great Wall of China on Utube and other similar sites – an interesting attempt at viral marketing.
(Via Fresh + New)
Designer Nathan Shedroff’s useful glossary on experience design.
On BibliOdyssey – a history of colour systems
(Via Design Observer)
Fancy yourself an inventor? Developers of the exhibition ‘Spymaker: The Science of Spying’ are offering 250 pounds for ideas on ‘near– future surveillance and counter–surveillance tech’. More information here.
(Via Boing Boing)
From the vaults – quaint footage of an Eames lounge chair being put together
(Via
Core 77)
Paola Antonelli, Design Curator at MoMA, gives a lecture at Stanford –
notes from Steve Portigal who was in attendence.
(Via Core 77)
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Posted by Lisa at 3:39 PM
Museum Photo of the Week:
Parque das Nacoes
Photograph by Regina De Rozario (aka Wrkshy)
Regina writes:
‘The Parque das Nacoes is a sprawling exhibition space and entertainment park built on reclaimed land, primarily for 1998's World Expo. One of its features is this ‘water garden’, part of a series of walk-through exhibits that lets you learn about different water environments, water cycles, how waves are formed etc’.
You can submit your photos for publication on MODE via the Flickr group,
Museum Photos for MODE or by email. Thanks!
Tags: museums, parque das nacoes, photos
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Posted by Lisa at 1:37 PM
Dullsville?
‘Perth IS dullsville! DULLSVILLE!!’
Sam Cook, Executive Producer of Yirra Yaakin
Do you believe in coincidences? There I was wondering why I’d moved from Perth, with its gorgeous beaches and seemingly endless good weather, not to mention most of my family and friends, and then a link arrives in my inbox to an article on Artshub by Sam Cook tackling the Perth dullsville debate. For those not in the know, despite the claim of the ‘State of Excitement’ on number plates in the not too distant past, Perth has not been able to shake its reputation as
dullsville. A great place to bring up kids, retire and make a fast buck – given the current resources boom – but what if you want more?
Sam lays the blame in a number of areas; Perth’s youth curfews, noise and trading restrictions and an ‘elite arts mentality’. She says:
‘Artswise, there lives an elite arts mentality sucking up the bulk of the funds and resources, which leaves slim pickings for the rest of us. All that bloody infrastructure so they can continue to service a minority of wealthy suits – usually a handful of ministers, patrons and city councillors fairy–tapping in the VIP seating when the cameras are pointed their way. Talk about over– ervicing! Where’s the accountable outcomes based KPIs in THAT?’
Although I’ve only been in Melbourne for a few weeks – not really long enough to make a proper comparison – the creative vibe here is already palpable. Melbourne is clearly proud of its creativity. Graffiti is considered urban art, chefs are the equivalent of rock stars and there seems to be museum after museum after museum.
Could this be heaven?!
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Posted by Lisa at 7:36 PM
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